Meningococcal Pneumonia
- 26 February 1948
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 238 (9) , 289-291
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194802262380903
Abstract
WITHIN a period of a month in 1942, 2 cases of pneumonia in which the meningococcus was implicated, without meningeal involvement, were observed. It has been known for some time that extrameningeal meningococcal infections are not uncommon,1 but the attention directed to the respiratory phase of such infections is very scant. In view of the uniqueness of one of the cases observed and because of the lack of recent literature on the subject, it seemed worth while to report the cases and briefly to review the literature. The fact that most of the cases previously reported involved military personnel in . . .Keywords
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